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A Survey Of Dark Matter Candidates And Relations To Particle Physics And General Relativity, Tyler Martell May 2019

A Survey Of Dark Matter Candidates And Relations To Particle Physics And General Relativity, Tyler Martell

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Cosmological observations of certain galaxies suggest that the amount of known, measured matter accounted for by the Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM) in those systems is insufficient to account for galactic mechanics (orbital paths and velocities). These observations have led physicists to believe that either General Relativity (GR) is incomplete, or that there exist new sources of yet-to-be detected matter, that may or may not be consistent with SM, called dark matter. Neither GR nor the SM can alone be considered complete theories of the universe for GR is not quantum

mechanical and the SM does not include GR. …